My forthcoming book will be unfortunately very relevant as we navigate the next 4 years, I hope that my colleagues friends and all those concerned abt the future of grassroots resistance will find it insightful and practical (out Feb from UNC press) uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Are you doing any book signings? I stay in Durham and am definitely interested if any events pop up.
I need to talk to my publicist abt that. Let me know if there’s local bookstores I should connect with. I live in Brooklyn but def wanna travel and promote it
Flyleaf Books is possibly your best bet, from what I can infer they're pretty consistent with this. Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh is also another good option.
@dandock.bsky.social If you have any input on this that would be great. No pressure as this is waaaaay out of my realm.
If you wanna come by Greater Boston, the Harvard Book Store would be your best bet but Porter Square Books and Trident Booksellers are also two good establishments!
Does it get into the Free Masons, that one is a doozy
No it doesn’t but do tell how that relates to this.. not skeptical genuinely curious
America Masons historically were a major civic organization that were very involved in local and state politics but had huge fallout over racial and other questions. So for example they had a lot of division over civil rights.
Some Masonic jurisdictions (each state and DC has its own grand lodge that decides policy) would admit non white men others would not but some of the ones that did not still recognize Prince Hall (black) mason’s as valid others did not.
I haven’t researched it in detail most of the stuff I know comes from oral history from the old timers at my home lodge in DC but apparently there were a lot of schisms. You see grand lodges can revoke recognition from one another. So for example, George and DC wouldn’t recognize one another.
Masons who had been raised in either jurisdiction could not sit with each other. Which apparently made things awkward for the Georgian congressional delegation for a while. That’s just one example there are other points where things cross cut for example Samuel Gompers was a major DC Mason
There is even a lodge named after him but he also famously kicked non white workers out of the AFL. Apparently there was a major humbug in the DC lodge (which admitted its first non-white member in 1843) I had also heard one reason the Klan became more popular was all the division in masonry.
Sorry for the multiple post your work looks interesting and I’m looking forward to digging into it but as soon as I read the title, the first thing that came to mind is all the awkwardness that comes up in American masonry, even though they are not as politically active as they once were
I have been told one reason for their diminished, political, activism, and bigger focus on charity is because of all the past political furball that almost killed the organization
All of that seems to be well before the period you’re looking at. But it’s what immediately came to mind based on my own involvement with Civic organizations in the United States and their shift towards political impotence
Thank you Micheal. I reference one of your works for my dissertation. “The War on Drugs, Racial Meanings, and Structural Racism: A Holistic and Reproductive Approach” helped my thinking around the drug war, incarceration of black men, and reentry from prison. I look forward to purchasing your book.
Thanks so much! I look forward to your thoughts on the book! Feel free to reach out since it seems like there’s some overlap in our work!
Great title
Hi very interesting I was just wondering if my perception was correct that yesterday's protests were above-average white.
I think that is fair to say based on the optics, a similar issue arose with the women’s March in Trumps first term, still important to celebrate the mobilization but work to be done
In it I use a case study from a grassroots organization in 2015-2016 to examine how racial inequality can become habituated even in organizations professing racial justice and what is needed to actually challenge wide scale racialized political inequality and build multiracial coalitions
Looking forward to reading this!
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